Bill Black
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Bill Black was an American bassist best known for playing with Elvis Presley in the 1950s and helping shape the sound of early rock and roll.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Black canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6267976 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Black Context triple: [Heartbreak Hotel, associatedWithArtist, Bill Black]
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A.
Bill Blackburn
Bill Blackburn was an American actor and stand-in best known for his recurring background roles and work as a stand-in on the original Star Trek television series.
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B.
Alan Black
Alan Black is a Northern Irish man known for being the sole survivor of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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C.
Neil Black
Neil Black was a distinguished British oboist renowned for his solo performances, chamber music collaborations, and influential recordings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn was an American poet and translator associated with mid-20th-century avant-garde movements, noted for his innovative verse and support of contemporary poetry through readings and recordings.
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E.
James Black
James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Black Target entity description: Bill Black was an American bassist best known for playing with Elvis Presley in the 1950s and helping shape the sound of early rock and roll.
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A.
Bill Blackburn
Bill Blackburn was an American actor and stand-in best known for his recurring background roles and work as a stand-in on the original Star Trek television series.
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B.
Alan Black
Alan Black is a Northern Irish man known for being the sole survivor of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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C.
Neil Black
Neil Black was a distinguished British oboist renowned for his solo performances, chamber music collaborations, and influential recordings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn was an American poet and translator associated with mid-20th-century avant-garde movements, noted for his innovative verse and support of contemporary poetry through readings and recordings.
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E.
James Black
James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ rock and roll musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1965 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bill Black’s Combo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotty Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | William Patton Black Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | brain tumor ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Elvis Presley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotty Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-09-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-10-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Bill Black’s Combo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
rock and roll
ⓘ
rockabilly ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasPartInDiscography |
Smokie (Part 2)
ⓘ
White Silver Sands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| helpedShape | sound of early rock and roll ⓘ |
| influenced | later rock and roll bassists ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
double bass ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Elvis Presley’s backing band
ⓘ
The Blue Moon Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Bill Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSongPerformance |
Don’t Be Cruel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heartbreak Hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ Hound Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ That’s All Right NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bill Black’s Combo recordings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early recordings with Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| occupation |
bandleader
ⓘ
bassist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Memphis, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Hi Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Evelyn Steele Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | slap bass ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bill Black Description of subject: Bill Black was an American bassist best known for playing with Elvis Presley in the 1950s and helping shape the sound of early rock and roll.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Don't Be Cruel
subject surface form:
That's All Right